# INDIUM CORP OF AMERICA
> **Administrative - Formal** · FY2001 · — · Final Order With Penalty
## Case
- **Activity ID:** `8467`
- **Case Number:** 02-2001-4221
- **Type:** Administrative - Formal
- **Lead:** EPA
- **Outcome:** Final Order With Penalty
- **Penalty assessed:** $17K
- **Cost recovery:** —
- **Compliance action $:** —
- **Multimedia (multi-env):** N
## Defendants
- INDIUM CORPORATION OF AMERICA (complaint) (settlement)
## Summary

05/23/00  - AUDIT POLICY DISCLOSURE DATE.                    ON MAY 23, 2000 INDIUM DISCLOSED TO EPA THAT AT A EPA SPON-  SORED TRI COMPLIANCE ASSISTANCE SEMINAR THE COMPANY DIS-     COVERED THEY HAD INCORRECTLY CALCULATED LEAD RELEASES FOR    TWO OF ITS FACILITIES LECATED N CLINTON, NY AND UTICA, NY,   RESPECTIVELY.  AS SUCH, THIS LEAD TO THE IMPROPER FILING OF  A FORM A, WHEN A FORM R SHOULD HAVE BEEN FILED, FOR REPORT-  ING YEARS 1995 THROUGH 1998.                                 *                                                                 ON MAY 23, 2000, INDIUM SUBMITTED A WRITTEN AND SIGNED  STATEMENT OF VOLUNTARY DISCLOSURE TO EPA, STATING THAT THEY  HAD BEEN INCORRECTLY FILING EPCRA FORM A TRI REPORTS FOR     LEAD, IN LIEU OF FORM R, FOR REPORTING YEARS 1995 THROUGH    1998, AT TWO SEPARATE FACILITIES.  NOTWITHSTANDING THE EX-   PLICIT LANGUAGE IN THE REGULATION 40 CFR SECTION 372.27(A)   THAT SPECIFIES THAT THE AMOUNTS TRANSFERRED FROM A FACILITY  TO OFF-SITE LOCATIONS FOR RECYCLING PURPOSES IS INCLUDED IN  THE COMBINED TOTAL QUANTITIES RELEASED, THE FACILITY HAD     ERRONESOUSLY THOUGHT THAT SENDING SPENT MATERIALS CONTAINING LEAD OFF-SITE TO A METAL RECLAMATION FACILITY DID NOT COUNT  AS A RELEASE.  AND, WITHOUT INCLUDING THESE OFF-SITE TRANS-  FERS, INDIUM THOUGHT THEY MET THE NECESSARY CRITERIA TO FILE A FORM A.  IN THEIR DISCLOSURE, IT WAS EXPLAINED THAT ON     MAY 4, 2000  REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE COMPANY ATTENDED AN    EPA SPONSORED SECTION 313 TRI COMPLI

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